No blame for Pascal Struijk in the injury to Harvey Elliott | Dermot Gallagher

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Former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher doesn’t believe lenient referees are responsible for Harvey Elliott’s injury.

Dermot Gallagher joined Joe Molloy on Tuesday night to discuss Pascal Struijk’s challenge on Harvey Elliott. Elliott broke his ankle when Struijk’s body fell on his lower limb in Liverpool’s 3-0 win over Leeds.

Gallagher doesn’t think more lenient officiating leads to more reckless challenges.

If you watch this game, it was played in a very good spirit. If you look at this challenge … I just think it was a really, really weird accident. It’s a challenge that you would see in many games.

I don’t think there is any blame for a second attached to Struijk. He had no intention of hurting Harvey. To Harvey’s credit, he said the same thing.

Struijk apologized to Elliott on his Instagram page while the Liverpool youngster said Struijk was not at fault.

“It wasn’t his fault anything! It wasn’t a red card either, just a freak accident, but these things happen in football. I’ll be back 100% stronger,” he said. Elliott said on Instagram.

Gallagher is supported in his view that this injury is not the result of rule changes by the fact that these types of injuries have always existed in football. Aaron Ramsey immediately comes to mind. It is not known if their frequency is now greater. But if so, Gallagher assures us that the referees will adapt.

The arbitrators meet every two weeks. They sit in the camp, they watch videos, they study videos. It’s a fluid process. If they feel that there is a little advantage to be gained in a certain area, they tighten up.

I’ve seen all 40 games so far. I saw them all live. I can tell you, you can watch four games, you can watch 40 games, you’re still going to be able to spot an incident. It is the nature of the beast. This is the subjectivity of it. But what I would say is that the overall 40 game package has been wonderful.

Gallagher also stressed that the referees are aware of these challenges and this is reflected in the red cards that have been given.

The advantage of the leniency shown by officials is felt in the quality of the matches, according to Gallagher.

“The great thing for me this season is that the Euros have been a fabulous and absolutely fabulous tournament. And the Premier League has really started in the same vein. And if the next 340 go like that, I’ll be the one. happiest man who ever went out to Dublin. “

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